Intel Core i9 13950HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.2 GHz Intel Core i9 13950HX with 24-cores against the 4.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7940HS and 13950HX
Advantages of Intel Core i9 13950HX
  • Has 16 more physical cores
  • Has 20 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 18% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2907 vs 2469 points
  • 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.5 GHz vs 5.2 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.3 vs 0.8 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (33rd and 174th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
16049
File compression 1210 MB/sec 962.5 MB/sec
Clang compilation 166.8 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 355 pages/sec 211.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 444.2 Mpixels/sec 326.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 264.5 pages/sec 260.3 pages/sec
Background blur 57 images/sec 53.8 images/sec
Photo processing 115.9 images/sec 87.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 35.7 Mpixels/sec 22.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 907 & 569 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
40459
Integer math 142.7 GOps/sec 102.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 102.4 GOps/sec 62.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 195M Primes/sec 90M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 55.9M Strings/sec 42.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 29.9 GBytes/sec 21.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 497 MBytes/sec 360.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 2584 Frames/sec 1427 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 28.9B Matrices/sec 27.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1775 & 2780 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
332.04

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 34.6 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 291.8 PPW 215.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 735.6 PPW 551.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.04 PPW 4.18 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i9 13950HX
No benchmark results yet
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-09 (chrisg)Cinebench 2024105 / 873
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-19 (Phillywilly2000)Cinebench 2024102 / 906
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-14 (GlancingOcean)Cinebench 202470 / 677
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-13 (antoooooo)Cinebench 2024109 / 1009
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-08 (ζ²§ζ΅·)Geekbench 6 CPU2614 / 12911

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i9 13950HX and AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 3, 2023 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Raptor Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number i9-13950HX -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics (32EU) Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX - Intel Core i9 13900H
Successor - - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
Intel CPU rating (#48th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#66th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 8
P-Threads 16 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.2 GHz 4.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.5 GHz 5.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 16 -
E-Threads 16 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.6 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 24 8
Total Threads 32 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 22x 40x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 36MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 45-55 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 157 W -
Socket BGA-1964 FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (59th and 106th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics (32EU) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1650 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 256 768
TMUs 16 48
ROPs 8 32
Execution Units 32 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
0.8 TFLOPS
4.3 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-5600
- DDR4-3200
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 192 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s -
ECC Support Yes No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i9 13950HX official page AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 20
Further details
Notes on Ryzen 9 7940HS:
    - DDR5 memory is supported only on the FP7r2 socket, while FP7 and FP8 sockets support LPDDR5/x.
    - ECC support is available exclusively on the FP7r2 socket.

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